This video shows a 320 mm diameter, 0.5 m long, steel tube being pushed into highly compressed MSW (waste) inside the 2 m diameter Pitsea compression cell in real time. The tube is being pushed by the upper platen of the cell. This formed part of an experiment to investigate the possibility of recovering undisturbed tube samples from MSW.

Satellite meeting of WP4 of the EC Project EuroMarine held at The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, September 27, 2011 ( http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_12 ).
Task 4.2 "Methods linking data at the point of sampling & collection"
The task will further lead technological developments to consistently track samples and contextual data to link multidisciplinary data from the point of collection. Lead technological developments to track samples using...

Satellite meeting of WP4 of the EC Project EuroMarine held at The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, September 27, 2011 ( http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_12 ).
Task 4.2 "Methods linking data at the point of sampling & collection"
The task will further lead technological developments to consistently track samples and contextual data to link multidisciplinary data from the point of collection. Lead technological developments to track samples using...